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> tearing out intersections for roundabouts As someone who drives in the UK, and has driven or been driven a lot in the in the US I so completely appreciate ro
by wlll 8y ago
> tearing out intersections for roundabouts
As someone who drives in the UK, and has driven or been driven a lot in the in the US I so completely appreciate roundabouts.
They're just way faster. If there's nothing coming from the right (in the UK) then you don't need to stop. The frustration of stop/start driving from intersection to intersection in SF could be completely replaced by a mostly uninterrupted drive. Sure, they don't work so well when there's heavy traffic, but you just need to intelligently decide which intersections to put them at.
- village-idiot 8y agoA non trivial amount of the CO2 difference between the EU and US comes from the difference between the two. Unfortunately my town has round abouts with stop signs, which are just dumb.
- adrianratnapala 8y ago> As someone who drives in the UK, and has driven or been driven a lot in the in the US I so completely appreciate roundabouts. Roundabouts are also less common in continental Europe than in the UK (or Australia). I think that's because the usual rule is that we give way to the traffic coming from the right even in countries where you drive on the right-hand side. But this rule really doesn't work for round-abouts, and so they become a potentially confusing corner-case (ha!) whereas everything is consistent in left-hand drive traffic countries.